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MLG and ESPN team up on live e-sports gaming event in Austin

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MLG and ESPN are teaming up to create the first-ever MLG X Games Invitational e-sports event at the inaugural X Games Austin event in June.

The event will run June 6 to June 8 as part of the Circuit of The Americas league series. It is part of the growing popularity of e-sports as fans who grew up with video games become spectators of the very best players. It also comes on the heals of MLG’s announcement that it will build a stadium in China to air e-sports events.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.